Podcaster Joe Rogan argued Saturday that progressive ideology has replaced religion for many on the left and that some are injecting their political beliefs into Christianity.
Rogan said he believed the left was “much more loony” than the right because a large portion of the left has embraced secularism.
“Like when you think about the left, you generally don’t think about like Christianity or any religion really. It’s more of like a science-based like, ‘We’re too smart for that thing.’ And I think they’re just lost,” Rogan said on his podcast. “There’s no moral scaffolding to hold on to.”
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Rogan went on to argue that having a shared code like the Ten Commandments and showing humility toward a higher power are good for society. He said that for many liberals, far-left political ideology has become their new religion, to the point where they try to inject their liberal beliefs into traditional Christianity.
“Another thing that’s interesting with the religious thing when it comes to the left is there’s been this larger than normal presence of these, like, LGBT pastors and these people that are promoting a very different Christianity,” Rogan said. “They’re talking about things that, you know, biblical scholars are like, ‘Hey, wait, what page is this on? What? Where does it say abortion’s OK? Like, how are you getting to that? Where does it say God’s non-binary?’”
“You know, there’s a lot of this weirdness — that this woke weirdness that sort of entered into religion and some pastors are doing it. And you go, ‘OK, is that good?’ I don’t know if that’s good,” he said. “Because you’re not following the original stuff.”
Rogan went on to say that if anything in the Bible is due for a modern reckoning, it would be biblical passages about slavery and genocidal warfare first, long before people try questioning God’s gender identity.
His guest, “Triggernometry” co-host Francis Foster, agreed, recalling his Catholic upbringing and comparing it with a more modernized Church of England service. Foster said that if one is going to be religious, you want “the real deal,” a faith that takes itself seriously.
“You want to hear the Latin!” Rogan said.
“You want the good stuff,” Foster continued, noting that a genuine religion needs a sense of moral consequences for bad deeds and saying, “You want to sit there and think to yourself, ‘F—, I’m going to hell, and it’s going to be awful.’”
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Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire and Bishop of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota, told Fox News Digital he largely agreed with the substance of Rogan’s take.
“For the past several decades, various forms of liberal Christianity have compromised the doctrinal content of the faith, first turning the great dogmas into vague symbols and subsequently evacuating them completely in favor of the progressive political agenda,” he said. “The test is whether someone can honestly and with enthusiasm subscribe to the Apostles’ Creed. Does he believe in God, in the divinity of Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit, in the objective truth of the Resurrection? If not, he is using classical Christianity as a smokescreen.”
